Example sentences of "and if it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She would need such care and gentleness , and if it killed him he would give it to her , but the passion was raging in him until he could hardly see straight .
2 You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird .
3 That was true , and if it suggested they had been alerted by the security pass and not by a friend in the underpaid BBC World Service , then so much the better .
4 We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar .
5 Walter Gifford Nash , honorary surgeon at the County Hospital , had expressed support for co-operation with the local authority , but added a rider to the effect that if the voluntary hospital were enlarged and improved , and if it increased its work , ‘ County Council would have very little to do ’ .
6 The rest of his property he left to his girl Agnes and to their child , if it were born alive , and if it showed itself to be of a good , kind character .
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